Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.
This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site. The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.
First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.[ad code=1 align=center]
By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.
Build impressive Joomla! Sites with jQuery, from third-party extensions to development
Enhance your Joomla! Sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more

Build impressive Joomla! Sites with JavaScript and jQuery
Create your own Joomla!, jQuery-powered, extensions
Enhance your site with third-party features, code-highlighting, Flicker, and more using Joomla! Plugins
Detailed explanations with step-by-step guidance and practical examples
What you will learn from this book

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Add an image slideshow, image popups, and a gallery to our site
Organize your site content in different tabs, articles, and slideshows and improve its search capability with AJAX searching
Enhance your site with third-party features, codehighlight, Flicker, and more using Joomla! Plugins
Build a dropdown menu with some amazing effects
Refactor and remove unnecessary library loads
Master the technique of coding directly on the template, parallax, scrolls, and tooltips
Build your first Joomla! module, a jQuery powered contact form
Develop a full module or component extension, with some bits of jQuery
Solve usability problems
Approach
This book is a tutorial with step-by-step instructions, packed with practical code examples, images, advice, and ideas.
Who this book is written for
If you are a PHP developer who is working with Joomla!, this book is for you. It is also aimed at web designers who want to add JavaScript elements, using jQuery, to their Joomla! sites, themes, modules, and other extensions.
A basic knowledge of web development and Joomal! is required. Some knowledge of JavaScript would certainly be a bonus. No knowledge of jQuery is required.
About the Author

Jose Argudo Blanco
Jose Argudo Blanco is a web developer from Valencia, Spain. After completing his studies, he started working for a web design company. Then, six years later, he decided to freelance.
Now that some years have passed as a freelancer, he thinks it’s the best decision he has ever taken because it let him work with the tools that he likes, such as Joomla!, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, jQuery, and other well-known open source technologies.
His desire to learn and share his knowledge has led to him being a regular reviewer of books from Packt Publishing, including Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics, Openx Ad Server, Drupal E-commerce, Joomla! With Flash, Joomla! 1.5 SEO, and Magento Theme Design.
Recently, he published his own book, CodeIgniter 1.7, which you can also find on Packt’s site. And since then he has been working on this Joomla! book, putting all his effort into it.
Product Details

Paperback: 292 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849512043
ISBN-13: 978-1849512046
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